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Potash and Related Resources of the Holbrook Basin, Arizona

dc.contributor.authorRauzi, S.L.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-29T02:16:24Z
dc.date.available2018-09-29T02:16:24Z
dc.date.issued2008-08-01
dc.identifier.citationRauzi, S.L., 2008, Potash and Related Resources of the Holbrook Basin, Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR-08-07, 23 p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/629928
dc.descriptionRecent analysis of subsurface data indicates a resource containing from 0.7 to 2.5 billion metric tons of potash in the Holbrook basin of east-central Arizona, some of which underlies Petrified Forest National Park (PFNP). The potash, located many hundreds of feet underground, is present near the top of extensive bedded salt deposits of Permian age. Caverns have been leached into the salt to store liquefied petroleum gas immediately west of the PFNP. Helium was produced northeast of PFNP in the 1960s and 1970s. Solution mining would be expected to recover about 30% of the resource while conventional underground mining could recover about 70% because some parts of the deposit are not easily soluble. Total recoverable resources thus range from 210 million tons to 1.75 billion tons, assuming the entire deposit was available for development. The potash deposit is deep enough that conventional underground or solution mining would have little or no effect on the surface except for the presence of the mining facilities themselves.
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesOFR-08-07
dc.relation.urlhttps://library.azgs.arizona.edu/
dc.rightsArizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectArizona Geological Survey Open File Reports
dc.subjectMesozoic
dc.subjectTriassic
dc.subjectPaleozoic
dc.subjectPermian
dc.subjectHolbrook
dc.subjectnortheastern Arizona
dc.subjectHolbrook Basin
dc.subjectPetrified Forest National Park
dc.subjectSupai Salt Beds
dc.subjectFort Apache Member
dc.subjectCoconino Sandstone
dc.subjectLPG
dc.subjecthydrocarbon storage
dc.subjecthelium
dc.subjectcross-sections
dc.subjectsolution mining
dc.subjectpolyhalite
dc.subjectcarnallite
dc.subjectsylvite
dc.subjectsabkha
dc.subjectDuval Exploration
dc.subjectArkla Exporation Company
dc.subjectSupai Formation
dc.subjectunderground mining
dc.subjectpotassium carbonate
dc.subjectpotash
dc.titlePotash and Related Resources of the Holbrook Basin, Arizona
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csdgm.bounding.south34.6087
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